Why has Landscape Pedigree View changed to show the ancestry of a spouse?
I posted a Community question about Landscape Pedigree view and was directed to this group by Ashlee C.
I now think this may be an unintended consequence of changes made to other pedigree views. I usually view trees using Fan Chart and saw this for the first time yesterday when a guest at the Family Search Library had a question.
"The landscape pedigree now displays the parents of an individual AND the parents of their spouse. This is not genealogically correct.
Also, a person with no spouse (like me) has half of the pedigree blank where there is no ancestry of a spouse to display.
The definition of a pedigree is a display of the ancestors of a person, not the ancestry of their spouse.
If you want to add this type of display, it needs a new name. It is not a replacement for the Landscape Pedigree chart."
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Looking at the landscape view just now, I don't see any changes in the basic format. The landscape view has always shown the ancestors of both people in the couple box ever since Family Tree first opened.
The only recent change in that display is that it is now possible to suppress part of it by marking No Couple Relationship or No Children on a person's profile page.
Generally the complaint around here is that the landscape pedigree is too limited in its display. Not that it shows too much.
The name probably does not need to be changed just because it technically shows two pedigree charts instead of just one.
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I beg to differ; the format of the display hasn't changed, but the content is different. The Landscape view has NEVER displayed this way in the past.
The other pedigree views (Fan Chart, Portrait, and the Pedigree Chart printed from the Person page) show the ancestry of a single person. They show the name of a spouse, but do not show the spouse's ancestry.
This is a change to Landscape view.
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Sorry, the format HAS changed. It now shows couples at each level instead of a single person.
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I just consulted with people who use Landscape view regularly and they say you are right (and I am wrong!)
Sorry!
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